Music Quotes - page 7

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music. (George Strait)
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds. View quote
Ennio Morricone
The end of all good music is to affect the soul. View quote
Claudio Monteverdi
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. View quote
Benjamin Britten
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. View quote
Charlie Parker
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. View quote
Billie Holiday
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. View quote
John Denver
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. View quote
John Lennon
Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
I like to think of music as an emotional science. (George Gershwin)
Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music. View quote
George Gershwin
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. View quote
Frank Zappa
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. View quote
Earle Brown
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. View quote
Elizabeth Berkley
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. View quote
John Williams
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. View quote
George Eliot
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. View quote
Joan Miró
Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
And the night shall be filled with music and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Mythology, science, space exploration, these are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write. View quote
Vangelis
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again. View quote
Cat Stevens
To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin